What are your thoughts on Comfort Blankets?

I always said my son would never have a comfort blanket.

Of course when he was a baby I never deliberately gave him one either I just used a really soft blanket to cover him up at night and yes he has become attached to it..well..he actually has six of them now! (for washing purposes!)

He does also have a dummy and uses the two in conjunction with one another really, having said that I don’t let him have it all the time but I don’t just limit it to bed times.

Someone suggested (I think it was a in a magazine I recently read – Psychologies ) that they are not a good thing because they replace the comfort of a mother or father and so there reassurance is misplaced and furthermore when it is taken away they are left with…nothing ?

Others see them as an additional comfort for when their parent or parents cannot be that…

What are your thoughts?
I’m not so sure…intuitively I feel that it can only be a good thing. I’m certainly not going to take it away from him now..as I think any “damage” has already been done. But is it damage anyway? And wouldn’t they just find something else to become attached to??